Dr Giulia Grillo is Lecturer and Projects and Research Grants Officer at LSE IDEAS.
She researches topics on peace and conflict, radicalisation processes, and political violence. She is particularly interested in better understanding the origins of violence and conflict to find better ways to address them and applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of these topics. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Psychological Perspectives on Radicalisation Processes. Stories from the Italian Far Left’ and combines IR and conflict studies with psychology. She is also member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) of the University of Kent, UK.